You know what, I find this utterly improbable. Venezuela is far from Russia and there was no way Russia could help Maduro. Ukrainian troops are getting grinned in Donbas. Russia does need to make deals with the Americans to defeat the Ukrainians.
The Czech media are also reporting this with reference to New York Times, they say Putin was given free hand in Ukraine in exchange for Maduro.
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China as well, but they get Taiwan in process
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